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Mirjam E. Meltzer, Carine J.M. Doggen, Philip G. de Groot, Frits R. Rosendaal, MD, and Ton Lisman Department of Clinical Chemistry and Hematology, University Medical Center Utrecht; Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden; 3 Department of Health Technology and Services Research, School for Management and Governance, University of Twente, Enschede; Departmen...

This paper focuses on the symbiotic relationship between the media in one respect andthe motion picture industry, educational institutions and policy-makers in perpetuating misrepresentations about Islam. The scope of this paper will be on the representations associated with Islam and Muslims primarily in the United States of America and the United Kingdom.Much news coverage about Islam and Mus...

Assaf Almog, Ori Roethler, Renate Buijink, Stephan Michel, Johanna H Meijer, Jos H. T. Rohling, and Diego Garlaschelli Instituut-Lorentz for Theoretical Physics,Leiden Institute of Physics, University of Leiden, Niels Bohrweg 2, 2333 CA Leiden (The Netherlands) Laboratory for Neurophysiology, Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, (The Netherlands) (Date...

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The Schubert Calculus is a formal calculus of symbols representing geometric conditions used to solve problems in enumerative geometry. This originated in work of Chasles [9] on conics and was systematized and used to great effect by Schubert in his treatise “Kalkül der abzählenden Geometrie” [33]. The justification of Schubert’s enumerative calculus and the verification of the numbers he obtai...

M. COPPENS ,* A . J . M . SCHRE I J ER ,* F . H . BERGER , S . C . CANNEGIETER , F . R . ROSENDAAL § and H . R . B Ü LLER* *Department of Vascular Medicine, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam; Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden; Department of Radiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam; and §Department of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, Leiden University...

Sander Kooijman, Wouter J. de Jonge, and Patrick C. N. Rensen Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands; Einthoven Laboratory for Experimental Vascular Medicine, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands; Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; and Tytga...